THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT'S UP THIS WEEKEND >>>
WEATHER REPORTFriday: Mostly cloudy with a shower, hi 56, lo 44
Saturday: Mostly cloudy with a little rain, hi 57, lo 52
Sunday: Mutha fuckin' rain, hi 52, lo 39
It's the first Friday of the month and that means only one thing: Dance Oly Dance. Head on over to TCTV Studio A on Olympia's Westside and dance to Hannah Montana, Black Flag, La Roux, Major Lazer, B-52's, Q-Tex, 7 Seconds, Hollywood Kill Krew and other local and national songs – on TV! As always, DJ PhilosoBitch spins the groove.
Some people just make you curious. You want to see how their minds work, what their thought processes are. You want to go through their stuff. Now's your chance. Tacoma Studio Tours - part of the bitchin' cool Tacoma Art at Work month - offers you the chance to see where artists (some of the most fascinating people among us, and with the most interesting stuff) work, as well as how they work. See how Amy Reeves works her metal magic, or what RR Anderson has in his Holistic Forge Works museum. It's a nosy, artistically inclined person's dream!
It may seem weird that in Mexico, bus drivers decorate their buses with skeletons or that children feast on skull-shaped candies at funerals. Mexicans aren't death-obsessed, but as the Web site Mexico OnLine (explains, "[T]hey recognize it, mock it, even defy it. Death is part of life and, as such, it's representative of the Mexican spirit and tradition which says, 'Don't take anything lying down-even death!'"
The holiday was Nov. 2, but the Tacoma Art Museum is bringing it back to life with a Dia de los Muertos community festival Sunday. Kiddies (and the young at heart) will love sugar skull decorating, mask-making, live music, traditional foods, the tapete and checking out more than a dozen altars created by community members. Everyone can celebrate the cost - it's all free.
M
ATT DRISCOLL Editor and Self-made Hundredaire
I'll be dropping by the Northwest Convergence Zone podcast Sunday for my monthly visit with Darrell and the gang. I got real high a few months back and dreamed up this alt-sport/entertainment column - Cup Check. Amazingly it managed to come to fruition, as you may have noticed online or in the classified section of the print Volcano. Now I go on the Convergence Zone once a month and pimp the thing, which typically results in some pretty entertaining podcast fun.
STEPH DEROSA: COLUMNIST
Since I'm feeling a little generous (or a little drunk), I plan on giving you a peek into not only my weekend plans - but through next week's plans as well. Today I leave for Westport with Mr. DeRosa, Kris Blondin, and her significant other, Chilly D. Returning Sunday evening after enjoying copious amounts of fresh seafood, smelly cheese, evening clam digs, horrible dancing, sand in the buttcrack, and red wine, I plan on laying low Monday and Tuesday only to revisit DeRosa Manor pt. Deux in Westport for the remainder of the week. Oh, and sometime in there I'm going to watch the movie Halloween because I've never seen it. I'm also going to start calling Kris Blondin "Kriserilla". Let's see if I can get it to catch on.
REV. ADAM MCKINNEY Features Wirter
Another weekend spent at the New Frontier. Tonight, I'll be catching a couple of my favorite local bands, the Makeup Monsters and Humble Cub. Tomorrow, of course, it'll be a full night of garage rock for Sonic Shakedown, with proceeds going to the American Diabetes Association.
NIKKI TALOTTA Features Writer
Tonight, I'm busting ass at the bar, Saturday, I'm making bacon potato chowder and eating as much of it as possible, sopping up the bottom of the bowl with sourdough rolls, and Sunday I'm watching cartoons and sleeping. There you have it folks, my fabulous weekend plans.
JOE IZENMAN Music/Theater Critic
While I'm busily watching The Hangover on DVD and recent release Due Date in a theater somewhere, I shall devote equal time convincing people that if they REALLY want to see Zack Galifianakis being awesome, they should go to The Grand Cinema for It's Kind Of A Funny Story. Do it. Really.
KRIS BLONDIN Food/Wine Writer
Hangin' in Westport with the DeRosa gang ALL weekend. Razor clam diggin', food, booze, and oh, so much leftover Halloween candy. You don't even know.
JENNIFER JOHNSON: Lifestyle/Leisure Writer
I'm headed to the Sanford and Son grand opening party for "Get Well Tacoma" tonight at 7 p.m. after 6 p.m. yoga at Serenity on St. Helens. Saturday, I'll pick apples in Nisqually, check out "New Collection Event," head to Gig Harbor for tasty-as-heck teppanyaki, drop by La Fondita for some karaoke fun and swing in to Tempest to hear some smooth grooves. Sunday, I'm off to the Dia de los Muertos celebration at TAM followed by church dinner and fireside.
CHRISTIAN CARVAJAL: Theater Critic
I'm seeing How I Learned to Drive (Prodigal Sun Productions) and Cradle Will Rock (UPS), plus helping my sister and brother-in-law celebrate the grand re-opening of their barbecue restaurant, Smoking Mo's, in Union. Smoked meat for everyone!
STEVE DUNKELBERGER Meat Market Correspondent
It is a kiddo weekend for this single dad: Fall Youth Theatre performances at Lakewood Playhouse. Sunday, it's off to the Suffrage Centennial Tea inside the State Capital Museum. This historic event will come alive at the reenactment of a Pink Tea, which were held as fronts for suffrage activities in the early 1900s.
ALEC CLAYTON: Visual Arts Critic
Going to see How I Learned to Drive at the Midnight Sun in Olympia.